Roughly, I think he found, for a couple retiring today, basically a two average earner couple, that they would have paid in roughly about $116,000 into Medicare, with an expected benefit--and all these things are time-value-adjusted--of about $350,000, which kind of shows the mismatch of the funding mechanism.
On the recordJuly 17, 2012
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Discussing the funding mismatch in Medicare for retiring couples.
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